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I've been using linux since '97, RH 5.1 that came on cd in the back of a linux tome I can't even recall the name of now was my first distro. The partitioning tool was called disk druid and the desktop? Fuck man the desktop was ugly, I don't even remember what it was called. Hahaha I just looked it up it was gnome, the beta: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkD9jY8cxIY god I'm old.

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On the topic of Windows 95 UI clones... If you go one minor version back from your experience, RedHat 5.0 actually shipped with FVWM95* as its default desktop and it was fugly:

http://toastytech.com/guis/x.html

* FVWM, with an unholy patchset to drag it kicking and screaming into kinda-sorta resembling Windows 95

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